name
Meaning 1
An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Cheyenne
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʃaɪˈæn/ without æ-raising
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/ʃaɪˈeə̯n/ æ-raising
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/ʃaɪˈɛə̯n/ æ-raising
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rhymes with -æn
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/ʃaɪˈɛn/
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pin-pen-merger: /ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/
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homophone: Shyanne
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rhymes with -ɛn
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CMU ARPABET: SH AY0 EH1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
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name
Meaning 3
A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.
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name
Meaning 4
A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 5
A female or male given name of modern American usage.
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noun
Meaning 6
A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language
noun
Meaning 8
the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: capital of Wyoming
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Broader terms: state capital
noun
Meaning 9
a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Algonquian, Algonquin, Plains Indian, Buffalo Indian
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: շեյեն (šeyen) — language
- Cherokee: ᏣᏰᏂ (tsayeni) — language
- Cheyenne: Tsêhesenêstsestôtse — language
- Finnish: cheyenne — language
- Mapudungun: cheyenne dungun — language
- Russian: чейе́нн (čejjénn) — language
- Russian: шайе́нн (šajjénn) — language
- Swedish: cheyenne — language
- Taos: sayénuna — language
- Danish: Cheyenne — city in Wyoming
- German: Cheyenne — city in Wyoming
- Greek: Τσεγιέν (Tsegién) — city in Wyoming
- Latin: Cheyenna — city in Wyoming
- Latvian: Šaiena — city in Wyoming
- Russian: Чейе́нн (Čejjénn) — city in Wyoming
- Russian: Шайе́нн (Šajjénn) — city in Wyoming
- Lakota: Wakpá Wašté — river in Wyoming and South Dakota
- Cheyenne: Tsétsêhéstaestse — member of the Cheyenne people
- Cheyenne: Tsitsistaists — member of the Cheyenne people
- Czech: Čejen — member of the Cheyenne people
- Dakota: Šahíyena — member of the Cheyenne people
- French: Cheyenne — member of the Cheyenne people
- Greek: Τσεγιέν (Tsegién) — member of the Cheyenne people
- Lakota: Šahíyela — member of the Cheyenne people
- Polish: Czejen — member of the Cheyenne people
- Polish: Czejenka — member of the Cheyenne people
- Swedish: cheyenne — member of the Cheyenne people
- Unami: Shëlatihka — member of the Cheyenne people
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